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Seek Sustainable Japan is a positive view of sustainable Japan through discussions with "Good People Doing Great Things" as a way to share ideas worth preserving and building on. Everything from community building to Japanese culture, art, crafts, trades, reuse & renovation, farming, entrepreneurship, sustainable business & products, events, organizations, travel & traditions. All of the guests on the show are creating a more sustainable Japan [i.e. better people-planet-profits balance] through their work, projects and way of life. JJWalsh is founder of the Inbound-Ambassador co. as well as founder & host of the talkshow-podcast Seek Sustainable Japan. JJ is originally from Hawaii, but now a 30 year+ Japan resident. JJ is a sustainability-focused guide, educator and consultant based in Hiroshima Japan. #inboundambassador #seeksustainablejapan

  1. Episode 545

    Sustainable Japan Day - Circular Diapers - Tech4Impact | Short-Takes Sept 2025

    This month sustainability focused, Japan based consultants, educators and entrepreneurs Tove Kinooka and JJWalsh discuss Sustainable Japan Day event and awards featured by the Japan Times  ⁨@thejapantimes⁩  - One Young World - Sustainability in the Himalaya mountains with Carole Fuchs - Tech for Impact event in Tokyo October - Global Perspectives workshops and INTRApreneurship training programs - Digital Collage September event ICHIGO BLOOM - Responsible Finance and Investing with Morisawa Michiyo - Wooden Barrels Craft Award Yamaroku Shoyu Shodoshima - Made-in-Japan apparel - Sustainable Forestry in Wakayama - Zero-Carbon baseball stadium HANSHIN Tigers - GLIN impact capital investments in startups with social and environmental impact - Outrage & Optimism podcast  ⁨@OutrageandOptimism⁩  - HGPI Health and Environment intersection - Yamaroku Soy Sauce - Yamagata rural revival .. LINKS - Sustainable Japan day event 2025 on September 18 https://sustainable.japantimes.com/sjd-2025 - UNICHARM circularity in diaper business for babies and elderly - recycled pulp & recycle used https://www.unicharm.co.jp/en/csr-eco/education.html - One Young World https://www.oneyoungworld.com/  ⁨@OneYoungWorld⁩  - Global Perspectives workshops & Intra-preneurship training https://www.globalperspectives.biz/intrapreneurship - Tech 4 Impact Summit https://tech4impactsummit.com/ - Digital Collage event in Sept 2025 Ichigo Bloom Tokyo https://ichigobloom.jp/digital-collage-explore-the-hidden-footprint-of-our-digital-lives-tokyo-21-september-2025/ - Morisawa Michiyo feature about Responsible Investing https://sustainable.japantimes.com/unraveling/25 - Yamaroku Shoyu SHODOSHIMA island https://yama-roku.net/en - Factelier made-in-japan clothing apparel https://factelier.com/aboutus/ - WAKAYAMA sustainable forestry https://nakagawa-forestry.com/about - Hanshin Tigers Zero Carbon Baseball Stadium https://zerocarbon-bp.hanshin.co.jp/park/map.html - GLIN social and environmental impact funding, startups and investing https://glinimpact.com/en/insight/insight-investment20231017 - Japan Health and Environmental policy intersection advising and diplomacy https://hgpi.org/en/ - Netchu Rural Revitalization in Yamagata - reusing abandoned schools to create community spaces https://www.takahata.necchu-shogakkou.com/ - Outrage and Optimism podcast https://www.outrageandoptimism.org/ --------------- JJWalsh's Inbound Ambassador Website: https://inboundambassador.com/ JOIN YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjRdeieOLGes008y_I9y5Q/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jjwalsh BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jjwalsh

    Sustainable Japan Day - Circular Diapers - Tech4Impact | Short-Takes Sept 2025

  2. Episode 546

    Beyond Traditional Japanese House Passion - talking Minka Con 2025 with Lauren & Andrea

    Lauren and Andrea are Minka Preservation Society founders and talk here about what we can look forward to at the MINKA CON event coming up in November 2025 https://www.minkasociety.com/

    Beyond Traditional Japanese House Passion - talking Minka Con 2025 with Lauren & Andrea

  3. Episode 547

    Introducing Ideas of Living Earth Lab Workshop in Okayama - chatting with Phil & Kyle

    Kyle Holzhueter is a master plasterer in Japan and founder of Kamimomi Permaculture center in Okayama joins Seek Sustainable Japan once again to talk about their upcoming Living Earth Lab - a 7 day workshop experience in natural living and sustainable life skills- with Phil Cashman of Awa Farm and other Tokyo area permaculture projects. Kyle Holzhueter & Phil Cashman are both long-time Japan based permaculture masters who are running a workshop in Okayama focused on Sustainable Living called LIVING EARTH LAB. Phil is passionate about urban farming - growing your own food even in small spaces, compost toilets and founded Awa Permaculture Farm in Chiba. Phil's Awa Permaculture farm community page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064494287906 Kyle: https://pamimomi.com/ Kyle Holzhueter on the Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow-podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh9VhKmd2_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2cJPZa1bc8 More about Phil: https://therongolianstar.com/2013/06/29/for-permaculture-in-japan-visit-permaculture-awa-farm-dojo/

    Introducing Ideas of Living Earth Lab Workshop in Okayama - chatting with Phil & Kyle

  4. Episode 548

    Talking with Toru Muramatsu CEO of Chiiori Alliance - recreating Japanese guesthouses

    CEO Toru Muramatsu talks of the great work of Chiiori Alliance and is an inspiring designer and manager who has done great work alongside Alex Kerr to develop beautiful, high-value stays for both international and Japanese guests by renovating old traditional Japanese homes into guest houses. Chiiori Alliance https://www.chiiori-alliance.jp/

    Talking with Toru Muramatsu CEO of Chiiori Alliance - recreating Japanese guesthouses

  5. Episode 549

    October Short-Takes on Sustainable Japan with Tove & JJ

    Monthly 30-min news and topics catch up

  6. Episode 550

    The Human Connection to MINKA traditional houses comes from Handcrafted design - Azby Brown / MinkaCon2025

    Inspiring talk from Azby Brown at MinkaCon2025 about how the beauty of hand-crafted things in traditional houses is what we as human beings respond to and NEED to have connection to in our homes and lives. Azby Brown is a respected MINKA MASTER, educator, author, researcher, advocate and advisor based in Japan for many years. https://azbybrown.com/about/ Watch the video here to see the images he shows and talks about on Seek Sustainable Japan YouTube https://youtu.be/02XeH-FnOZg?si=Vb6UMOoHUkm6YwQZ

    The Human Connection to MINKA traditional houses comes from Handcrafted design - Azby Brown / MinkaCon2025

  7. Episode 551

    Japan Rural Life & Classic Homes Event - Minka Summit 2026 - Chat with Stuart Galbraith

    Kominka Japan has set the date for the annual Hanase Village Minka celebration in Rural Kyoto for the weekend of April 24,25,26 2026 - save the date! Tickets are now on sale and you can get a discount if you buy before the end of 2025 https://kominkajapan.online/events/ LINKS: My talk with Paul & Kim Fredale about their stunning home and garden renovation: https://youtube.com/live/yjVcsFL09sU Buy your MINKA SUMMIT 2026 tickets, dinner tickets, lunch tickets.. on Peatix: https://minka-summit-2026.peatix.com/ Some Highlights of the event to be announced in the show: · Speaker Presentations · Minka and Machiya Tours! · Hands-On Workshop Demonstrations! · Minka Mall! · Friday Night Meet-and-Greet · Saturday Night Dinner & Keynote Speech About Stuart Galbraith from KominkaJapan website Stuart Galbraith IV is a film historian who has lived in his 1810 minka in the mountains north of Kyoto since 2016 with his wife, Yukiyo, and daughter, Sadie. He is the author of seven books, including The Emperor and the Wolf – The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune and Japanese Cinema and a co-writer of Academy Award-winner Steven Okazaki’s documentary Mifune – The Last Samurai (2015). A former archivist for Warner Bros. and MGM, Galbraith writes reviews for the website The Digital Bits and frequently does audio commentaries and produces short documentaries for DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K releases, including such films as Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Sanjuro, and Dersu Uzala, Kinji Fukasaku’s Battles without Honor and Humanity, Martin Scorsese’s Silence, and Joshua Logan’s Sayonara. His most recent credit is an audio commentary for the Powell & Pressburger classic A Matter of Life and Death. He also wrote and produced the documentary short, The Minka of Gaijin Alley (2019).

    Japan Rural Life & Classic Homes Event - Minka Summit 2026 - Chat with Stuart Galbraith

  8. Episode 552

    Sustainable Japan Short-Takes with Tove & JJ

    What are the latest sustainable japan topics on our radar for November? Monthly chat about sustainability trends, innovation, events and issues for Japan & beyond with JJWalsh & Tove Kinooka / Topics & Updates - November 2025 LINKS The Conduit - Climate and Conflict https://www.theconduit.com/programme/... The Burning Question: Climate & Conflict    • The Burning Question: Climate and Conflict   Talk with traditional-Japanese design expert author-architecht Azby Brown about how Humans connect to human-made things    • Hand Crafted Design Appeal of Traditional ...  Blacksmith in Fukuyama:   / akitakazuyoshi  Deep Travel Experience with Alex Kerr in Kagawa via ONESTORY   / onestorytraveller  LinkedIn Univ Exeter COP30 Summary https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exeter...Home- Work Village https://homeworkvillage.com/

    Sustainable Japan Short-Takes with Tove & JJ
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Seek Sustainable Japan is a positive view of sustainable Japan through discussions with "Good People Doing Great Things" as a way to share ideas worth preserving and building on. Everything from community building to Japanese culture, art, crafts, trades, reuse & renovation, farming, entrepreneurship, sustainable business & products, events, organizations, travel & traditions. All of the guests on the show are creating a more sustainable Japan [i.e. better people-planet-profits balance] through their work, projects and way of life. JJWalsh is founder of the Inbound-Ambassador co. as well as founder & host of the talkshow-podcast Seek Sustainable Japan. JJ is originally from Hawaii, but now a 30 year+ Japan resident. JJ is a sustainability-focused guide, educator and consultant based in Hiroshima Japan. #inboundambassador #seeksustainablejapan

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